Bay Area Emcee Gives Glimpse Into A True Player's Holiday For The Second Release Off Of Upcoming Roachy Balboa III Young emcee Roach Gigz has a certain indescribable charisma that draws the listener toward his light-hearted, dexterous lyrical style and devil-may-care demeanor. Judging by his newes... Read more...
Exclusive audio obtained by The Nation of a stop-and-frisk carried out by the New York Police Department freshly reveals the discriminatory and unprofessional way in which this controversial policy is being implemented on the city’s streets. On June 3, 2011, three plainclothes New York Cit... Read more...
Many Chinese students come to the U.S. for college.For the past few years, the number of Chinese students studying in the U.S. has continued to rise. In 2012, Chinese student enrollments rose by 23% overall, and by 31% at the undergraduate level in particular, according to the Institute of Intern... Read more...
The future of food: First bugs, now $325,000 hamburgers? You’ll have to forgive Mark Post for what has to be the most expensive five ounce hamburger in history; he grew it in a lab. And The New York Times is reporting that the first in vitro burger could be eaten in the coming weeks at an... Read more...
Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of political activist Malcolm X, died while traveling in Mexico, U.S. officials confirmed Friday. He was 28. Two U.S. officials said Shabazz was killed Thursday morning in Mexico City. They did not provide additional details and they spoke anonymously because they we... Read more...
No concept lies more firmly embedded in our national character than the notion that the USA is "No. 1," "the greatest." Our broadcast media are, in essence, continuous advertisements for the brand name "America Is No. 1." Any office seeker saying otherwise would be committing political suicide. In f... Read more...
The Black-White achievement gap is alive and well in the United States. Take New York City as an example. According to a recent article in the New York Times, in the city’s 3rd-8th grades, 40% of black students met state standards in the 2010 math tests. This is compared with 75% of white studen... Read more...
Prototype software can give early warnings of disease or violence outbreaks by spotting clues in news reports. Researchers have created software that predicts when and where disease outbreaks might occur based on two decades of New York Times articles and other online data. The research comes from ... Read more...
Earlier this week, hackers gained access to Twitter's internal systems and stole information, compromising 250,000 accounts before the breach was stopped. Bob Lord, the company's manager of network security, reported the incident on Twitter's official blog Friday. Twitter is resetting passwords fo... Read more...